sous-homme
\su.zɔm\
The verdict
“sous-homme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Humain ontologiquement considéré comme inférieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sous-homme · sous-homme · French
sous-homme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sous-homme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \su.zɔm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sous-homme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \su.zɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sous-homme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sous-homme, spelled S-O-U-S---H-O-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Humain ontologiquement considéré comme inférieur.
- 2Humain dégénéré, considéré comme méprisable, caractérisé par la bassesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sous-homme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idéologie nazie considérait que les peuples germaniques constituaient la race des seigneurs, tandis que tous les autres représentaient des races inférieures à des degrés divers alors que les Juifs, les Slaves et les Tziganes étaient considérés comme des sous-hommes, ce qui leur valait, dans les camps de prisonniers, un traitement pire qu’aux autres ethn…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.